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yellowish tinge, legs dark brown except for the hind tibiae, hind tarsi and 
small joints of fore and mid tarsi which are more or less pale brownish stramin- 
eous; legs covered with whitish and pale golden hairs scopa atypical, its 
hairs whitivsh and arranged in much the same way as in .4. (.4.) nasoni Rob., 
hairs at base above also whitish, hind metatarsi at most api)arently a little 
wider than mid metatarsi ;propodeum with its enclosure poorly defined, shiny 
and finely reticulated, rest of upper face of propodeum sculptured somewhat 
like the mesopleura and covered with finer whitish hair, propodeal pleura with 
sparse shallow' punctures, floccus white; abdomen with its tergum polished 
and sculptured much like the dorsulum but with smaller punctures and only 
slightly if at all metallic, the punctures from one to six or more puncture 
widths apart on the first tergite, the punctures closer on the succeeding ter- 
gites, mostly from one to three puncture widths apart and larger than on the 
first tergite, second, third and fourth tergites with an aj)ical, whitish hair 
band, apical edge of first, second, third and fourth tergites with a pale stramin- 
eous border, second tergite with its elevated portion down the middle : de- 
pressed portion :: 12:7, fifth tergite shining, reticulate, its punctures closer 
together than on the other tergites, pygidium nearly planate, somewhat con- 
cave, rounded at apex, tergum satiny with inconspicuous appressed whitish 
hairs in addition to the hair bands, fimbria pale golden. In a i)aratype, from 
the same source as the type and with the same collector’s number as the type, 
the teigites, ch'peus and edge of parts adjoining the clypeus are more or less 
brow'n. 
Allotype.- — No. 4075, The Acadenw of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia. Fedor, Lee County, Texas, INIarch 24, 1902. 
(G. Birkmann.) 
Male. — Length 5.5 mm.; body black with a faint greenish or purplish tinge, 
mostly covered with w'hitish hair; head w'ith its facial line : transfacial line :: 
40:50, axial line : temporal line 21: 10, temples not produced, rounded, 
malar line : joint 3 of antennae :: 1 : 4, elevated portion of malar space 
virtually w'anting, head covered with whitish hairs throughout, front dullish, 
finely reticulated and finely longitudinally striate, ocellocular line : ocelloc- 
cipital line :: 9: 2.5, face shiny, indistinctly punctured, its punctures mostly 
from adjoining to one or two puncture widths apart, clypeus convex, more 
shiny and more distinctly punctured than the face, elevated directly above 
the apical margin, clypearea w'anting, clypeal punctures as many as six punc- 
ture widths apart, sculpture of the clypeus not hidden by the moustache, 
labrarea subemarginate, polished, its width at base : greatest length : : 6:2, 
width at apex : length down the middle :: 2.5: 1.5, labrarea at base : distance 
betw'een low'er angles of clypeus :: 6: 12, labrum with a fringe of pale hairs, 
joint 3 of antennae : 4 :: 4: 5, joint 4 : 5 :: 5: 7, joint 5 and following joints 
nearly one and one-half times as long as thick, shiny, flagel, undulate in outline, 
antennae brownish throughout, mandibles atypical, robust, extending beyond 
the lower corners of the clypeus and nearly to end of the basal third of their fel- 
low, black except for the apical half which is mostly dark reddish, palpi nearly 
TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC., XLIII. 
